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MONOECIA TRIANDRIA, 
nate, unequal, ferruginous, the exterior slightly fringed* Nut globular, 
roughened with small tubercles, very slightly mucronate. 
Grows in damp soils. 
Flowers May — June. 
6. Hirtella. Mich. 
S. caule erecto, gra- 
cili, foliisque bracteis- 
que hirsutulis; spicis 
terminalibus, axillari- 
busque; glumis pubes- 
centibus; nucibus 
transversim corruga- 
tis. E. 
Mich. 2. p. 168 . Sp. pi. 4. p. 31 8. Pursh, 1. p. 46. Nutt. 2. p. 205. 
Stem about eighteen inches high, triquetrous, hairy, particularly along the 
margins. Leaves narrow, channelled, shorter than the stem, hairy. Spikes 
two to three, near the summits of the stem, distinct, not fasciculated, with 
sometimes a small axillary spike near the base of the stem. Bracteal leaves 
much longer than the spikes, hairy and conspicuously fringed. Glumes 
ovate, acuminate, unequal, pubescent. Nuts globular, roughened chiefly by 
irregular transverse elevated lines. 
Grows in damp soils. 
Flowers in the summer. 
-^,Var. Strigosa. 
Under this head I will place a plant nearly allied in its characters, but 
less hairy excepting along the angles of the stem and the margins and midrib 
of the leaves, its spikes also are larger and more numerous, its glumes fring- 
ed, of a light chestnut colour, and the nut rather roughened by distinct tuber- 
cles than by transverse lines. 
Collected by Dr. Baldwin on the confines of Georgia and Florida; per- 
haps a distinct species. 
Stem erect, slender, 
and with the leaves and 
bracteas slightly hir- 
sute; spikes terminal 
and axillary; glumes 
pubescent; seed trans- 
versely wrinkled. 
7. Reticulata. Mich. 
S. culmo foliisque 
glabris; vaginis alatis; 
spicis sparsis axillari- 
bus terminalibusque; 
Stem and leaves 
glabrous; sheaths wing- 
ed; spikes scattered, 
axillary and terminal; 
